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Council moves forward with proposal to curb self-storage development

A City Council committee on Thursday paved the way a proposal to limit new self-storage development in large swaths of the city’s industrial neighborhoods. The full Council is expected to approve the measure on Monday, which would require developers to secure a special permit in order to build new facilities in most of the city’s 21 industrial business zones, Crain’s reported. Those zones make up roughly half of the manufacturing space in the five boroughs. […]